EXPO 2012 Seminar
Natural Gas, the fuel for the future
The Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute, headquartered in the port of Duluth/Superior has recently been awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration to study the feasibility of using natural gas as a primary fuel for Great Lakes commercial vessels. The research plan will include interaction with the European Union that has embarked on a similar study. While GLMRI will be primarily researching marine transportation, they will also be looking at the feasibility of providing LNG fuel in port areas for rail and trucking so that the liquefaction plants realize economies of scale and air emission improvements can be expanded to other modes.
UPS just recently started to repower some of their trucks with LNG. It has been reported in Transport Topics that Congress is considering tax breaks for building natural gas fueling stations and millions more in tax breaks to the manufacturers of natural gas vehicles. The United States has only 133,000 natural gas vehicles vs. 13 million vehicles elsewhere around the world. It is estimated the nation has as much as 120 years worth of natural gas reserves yet untapped.
This seminar will review the proposed study along with an outline of the limitations, disadvantages and advantages of natural gas. Examples of successful transportation systems using natural gas as a primary fuel use will be presented. An open discussion of the potential of future applications of natural gas as a fuel for transportation will follow.
When: March 20, 2012
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Where: Ramada Mall of America, Shoshone Room
2300 East American Boulevard, Bloomington, MN
Presented by: Richard D. Stewart, Ph D, CTL
Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, the Director of the Transportation and Logistics Research Center, Co-Director of the Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute and Chair of the Department of Business and Economics.
Cost: ‘FREE’ (courtesy of The Transportation Club of Minneapolis/St. Paul)
If you would like to attend, please email us at office@transportationclub.com.
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About our Speaker:
Richard D. Stewart earned his Ph.D. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lally School of Management his Masters degree at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and his Bachelors at the US Merchant Marine Academy. Dr. Stewart has commanded ocean going merchant ships and was Manager of a $300 million dollar fleet vessels trading world-wide. He still has a current Unlimited Tonnage Ocean Master’s License to command ships.
He earned the rank of Captain in the US Naval Reserve with 30 years of honorable service. He is an examiner for the American Society of Transportation and Logistics and is certified in Transportation and Logistics by AST&L. He has been a small business owner as well as a corporate manager.
Dr. Stewart has extensive teaching experience in undergraduate and graduate courses in the US and overseas. His publications include co-authoring an International Logistics textbook, book chapters, journal articles, and numerous studies and papers on transportation management, marine environmental management, port operations and transportation education. He has served as a consultant for corporations and governmental agencies.
Dr. Stewart has been a principal investigator for over $8 million in research grants in transportation, logistics and environmental management. He has also been a researcher on collaborative research projects with other universities. He has published a number of grant reports and presented his findings at peer reviewed conferences.
Richard is married to Kathleen Collins and they have four children. He is active in Boy and Girl Scouts along with the Duluth –Superior Transportation Association and several other professional societies. He serves on public advisory committees and non-profit boards of directors.
